This will promote general morality and ensure sturdiness in the new generation; and thus we shall have no delicate offspring of late marriages, children of fathers who spent their strength in the struggle for life.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

But so it is; and truly as strange things may happen when a whole People goes mumming and miming.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And, as the study of wisdom consists in action and contemplation, so that one part of it may be called active, and the other contemplative,—the active part having reference to the conduct of life, that is, to the regulation of morals, and the contemplative part to the investigation into the causes of nature and into pure truth,—Socrates is said to have excelled in the active part of that study, while Pythagoras gave more attention to its contemplative part, on which he brought to bear all the force of his great intellect.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But still I bore every thing without crying out: when presently giving me another pause, he rushed, as it were, on that part whose lips, and round about, had felt this cruelty, and by way of reparation, glued his own to them; then he opened, shut, squeezed them, plucked softly the overgrowing moss, and all this in a style of wild passionate rapture and enthusiasm, that expressed excess of pleasure; till betaking himself to the rod again, encouraged by my passiveness, and infuriated with this strange taste of delight, he made my poor posteriors pay for the ungovernableness of it; for now showing them no quarter, the traitor cut me so, that I wanted but little of fainting away, when he gave over.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

There was also a book of DeFoe's, called an Essay on Projects , and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good , which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Walà pa gánì mahinungà ang kan-un niíni, mitindug na kini, She got up before the rice was even halfway consumed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wà pa gánì mubagting ag kampána mitayáda dáyun ang usang buksidur, The bell had not even rung when one of the boxers started swinging his fist.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Kaanúgung giíhaw wà pa gánì mahitsu ang balhíbu, What a pity to kill it before it even grows big enough to have all its feathers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wà pa gánì mahíyus ang paniudtu, paínit na pud, Before we’ve even digested our lunch, they serve tea.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wà pa gánì makalutù ang ginamus nahurut na námug káun, The fish paste had not even gotten fermented before we ate it up.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He raised her (gracefully enough) and embraced her, said barely one word, turned round, retired to a distant part of the apartment, and calling me to him, said, ‘Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.’
— from Royalty in All Ages The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

These fellows who get the idea that they must dig, dig, dig here, just as they say they do at West Point, give me a pain.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

Every plan his father made for the future of the estate, he would preface with the statement ‘When Peter gets married,’ as naturally as if he said ‘When the wheat comes into head’; but that was as far as it ever went.
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

A few paces off him sat Walter Pater, George Meredith, and Mr. Austin Dobson.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

He raised her gracefully enough, and embraced her, said barely one word, turned round, retired to a distant part of the apartment, and calling to me, said: 'Harris, I am not well: pray get me a glass of brandy.'
— from The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Comparison of OER GDP with PPP GDP may also indicate whether a currency is over- or under-valued.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

While the column was passing, General McCook and staff came dashing by in magnificent style.
— from The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers by David Lathrop

A man required to submit to gradually increasing periods of solitary confinement would probably go mad as soon as he had been kept for a year without a break.
— from Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas

and Jimps would propose getting me a cup of tea.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Miriam M. Smith (W) & Paul Grady Moorhead (A); 8Sep66; R392952.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office